by Robert Brown | Nov 27, 2017 | How I joined the church, MFT and Fundraising
by Matthew Goldberg November 27, 2017 I decided to join the Unification Church in San Francisco, California. It was late summer of 1976, shortly after my 28th birthday. Within less than a year I found myself fundraising in Michigan with a Mobile Flower (sic)...
by Robert Brown | Nov 19, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
by Randall Lay Tin November 19, 2017 Night life meant going to pubs and restaurants selling flowers or whatever. At a restaurant, a guy didn’t like us and I asked why. “You’re all brainwashed on low protein diets.” I pulled out a spare chair at his table and said, “Oh...
by Robert Brown | Nov 19, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
by Gregory Davis November 11, 2017 There was no normal. When it came to the late night “blitz”. We were “commandos”. Brazen fearless. Whatever it took to “do” the place. I remember one “classy place” Italian I think, in Philadelphia. (all my best stories seem to come...
by Robert Brown | Nov 14, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising
Robert Brown shares two entries from journals, one from 1978, one from 1980 on challenges to fundraising.
by Robert Brown | Oct 3, 2017 | Challenging Times, MFT and Fundraising
Susan Felsenthal shares how her captain left her and a brother out all night though their pick up was 9pm. They each found a box to sleep in outside the Piggly Wiggly until the captain finally pulled up at 5am. He had fallen asleep.
by Robert Brown | Sep 23, 2017 | Church Businesses, MFT and Fundraising, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley Our church started a lot of businesses, some for lofty reasons, some just to make money. There were and are so many of that I can’t do them justice. If you were a part of any church business, would you be willing to record something about what it was,...